Ed Davey has said that Boris Johnson must resign over the Downing Street parties. He said:
“Boris Johnson has broken the law and lied to Parliament and the country, and he must now go.
“Millions of people obeyed the lockdown rules, often at huge personal cost. They missed funerals, cancelled weddings and said goodbye to dying loved ones on video calls – some on the very day that Number Ten illegally hosted a garden party.
“Boris Johnson has become a threat to health of our nation, and for the sake of the country still gripped by this awful pandemic he must resign.”
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It should be noted that the motivation for the Conservative MPs wanting to get rid of Johnson is not that he is a terrible PM, but that he has become an electoral liability.
That is always the reason why Conservative MPs want to get rid of a leader.
Margaret: Yes, indeed.
Everyone needs to email either their Conservative MP or Conservative Local Party requesting that they write to Sir Graham Brady requesting that Boris Johnson be sacked immediately.
Boris is singlehandedly keeping Labour ahead in the polls, and giving us a much needed Blue Wall boost.
Be careful what you wish for. I would rather he continue for now. Any new leader will draw a line under Boris and win back voters.
Boris resigning may win the battle, but will likely lose us the war.
Matt Haines is right. The Conservatives sack unpopular leaders so that the ex-leader takes the poison away with them and the Conservative party can carry on with a clean sheet and win the next election. It worked with Margaret Thatcher and it worked with Theresa May. A key factor in our success in North Shropshire was the disgust so many traditional Conservative voters had for Boris Johnson.
The key to our future success will be if we can make the blame for what has gone wrong stick to the Conservative party as well. If we can’t, most of the progress we have made in rebuilding our party will disappear as soon as the Conservatives get rid of him. (and they will – the only question is when). As we really haven’t started to try to get blame to stick to the Conservatives rather than just Boris Johnson, we need a significant amount of time before Boris goes so we can really get that message over to the electorate.
The question that should have been asked to Johnson at PM’s questions, but I do not think did is ‘Has the Prime Minister attended any other work related meetings for which participants were invited to bring their own booze?’ However Johnson might respond would be incriminating. To say No would effectively concede that the event was a party and would also entrap Johnson when further revelations come to light; a Yes would set the hares running; an evasive answer would be seen for what it is and also call open season for diggers and leakers. Such a question would have made it obvious that Johnson is at a dead end.
It’s not at all clear that the law has been broken…
‘No, the Downing Street party probably didn’t break the law’ [December 2021]:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/did-the-downing-street-party-break-the-law
Those writing to their MPs might want to send them this amusing article from the TLS by one Rory Stewart.
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/boris-johnson-tom-bower-book-review-rory-stewart/
Know your enemy and don’t miss this extraordinary insight into Cummings and his blog:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/14/intoxicating-insidery-and-infuriating-everything-i-learned-about-dominic-cummings-from-his-10-a-month-blog